Steam’s bringing its Library design into the 21st century with a new Collections feature and more thumbnail-intensive, appealing view of your games and activity. You’ll be able to try it out starting Sept. 17 when it goes into open beta. Plus, its Steam Labs Micro Trailers experiment — an autogenerated playlist of 6-second trailers that …

AT&T’s 4G LTE network took some well-deserved hits earlier this year for rebranding to the arguably deceptive “5GE,” but it turns out that on the backend the wireless carrier actually did more to its network than just call it a new name.  In a report released Wednesday, mobile network evaluator Global Wireless Solutions found that AT&T was, in fact, the …

Apple will unveil its iPhone 11 lineup for 2019 next Tuesday, but we might already have a glimpse at what it expects to do in 2020. The Cupertino, California, company plans to add a cheaper iPhone — its first since 2016’s $399 iPhone SE — to its lineup next spring to win customers back from competitors like Huawei, Nikkei reported …

If you’ve been waiting to get a new Fire TV, right now might be as good as time as any. Amazon on Wednesday announced a ton of new Fire TV devices, most of which are available across the globe. Amazon partnered with Chinese brand Anker for the first-ever Fire TV Edition sound bar, a faster Fire TV Cube and a …

Have you been waiting for a powerhouse Titan RTX-class graphics processor to make its way into a 15-inch laptop? Well, Nvidia and Asus crammed the workstation equivalent, the Quadro RTX 6000, into a relatively small space just for you. Asus’ new ProArt StudioBook One is the first laptop (ahem, mobile workstation) based on Nvidia’s Ace reference design, which puts all the …

Last year, Plantronics got off to a shaky start in the true wireless arena. Its BackBeat Fit 3100 earbuds were hampered by connectivity issues and weren’t particularly well received. But its just-released BackBeat Fit 3150 ($150, £130, AU$249) and BackBeat Fit 3200 ($150, £130, AU$249) work much more reliably. Meanwhile, the new BackBeat Pro 5100 ($170, £160, AU$299), the first …

I have a sheet of paper with my Wi-Fi name and password clearly printed that I give to houseguests so they can log on to the Wi-Fi network. That method of sharing is not foolproof, however, and can still take visitors a few tries to get it correct. Now that Android 10 is here, I’m recycling that sheet. No more …

It’s a paper battle between two professional monitors that haven’t even shipped yet: the Apple Pro Display XDR and the 32-inch Asus ProArt PA32UCG. Both promise the world for video editing: a peak brightness of 1,600 nits (and sustained full screen of 1,000 nits), true 10-bit color covering at least 99% of P3, reference color profiles in hardware, support for …

Acer launched its Concept D line of creator-focused systems in April, which included the unique Concept D 9, based on the Predator Triton 900 gaming system, as well as more traditional clamshell Concept D 7 and 5, similarly based on a couple of the company’s gaming laptops. At IFA 2019, Acer expanded the line to include a $1,000 entry-level model, …

There are a lot of efforts trying to rein in advertising tech that tracks you online, and the newest option is coming from the ad industry itself. The IAB Tech Lab, a partner to the Interactive Advertising Bureau that has long represented online ad companies, proposed a new digital token on Wednesday designed to offer a better balance between advertisers’ …

Some PC gamers might still laugh at the idea of using a laptop instead of desktop, but that’s certainly not stopping Asus from advancing the technology for portable gaming. Following up the CES debut of the crazy ROG Mothership GZ700GX and overhauling its entire gaming laptop lineup in April, Asus debuted the world’s fastest laptop gaming display at IFA 2019, …

Gamers can gear up and save this week during Intel Gamer Days. The sale includes a variety of systems, components and peripherals from a number of manufacturers and retailers — from Alienware and Amazon to Velocity Micro and Walmart — and ends on Sunday, Sept. 8. You can check out all of the Intel Gamer Days product deals here. Below …

YouTube Wednesday announced massive changes to how it treats kids videos, as the US Federal Trade Commission hit Google with new rules and a record $170 million penalty to settle a probe into the privacy of children’s data on giant video site. It’s the largest penalty ever levied for violations of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, or COPPA.  YouTube’s CEO and some …

Sound bars are one of the most popular ways to add improved audio to your TV, and now they let you add streaming too. The Roku smart sound bar, available for pre-order today for $180, has a full Roku operating system suite onboard, complete with thousands of apps like Netflix, Hulu, YouTube and Spotify — no need to add a …

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai is proposing $950 million in funding to help carriers build faster and more resilient broadband networks in Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands, where infrastructure was devastated by Hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017.   The FCC provided $66 million from the Universal Service Fund to assist carriers in Puerto Rico and the US …